California · Nonprofit
JUNIOR LEAGUE OF SANTA BARBARA
JUNIOR LEAGUE OF SANTA BARBARA (California) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $405,533 to it, the largest being CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($170,675). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 58% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $202k
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $406k
- Net assets
- $633k
What Junior League of Santa Barbara does
Mission
The Junior League of Santa Barbara is an organization of women committed to promoting volunteerism, developing the potential of women, and improving the community through the effective action and leadership of trained volunteers.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The Junior League of Santa Barbara (jlsb), continued volunteer, material, and financial support for it's signature project s.a.f.e. House santa barbara (saving at-risk youth from exploitation) through a continued strategic non-profit partnership with 4 kids 2 kids, inc (4k2k). The shelter, a six-bed short-term residential therapeutic program (strtp), is designed to meet the very specific needs of minor females who have been sexually exploited.in addition, jlsb announced a second signature project with 4k2k: living arrows, a therapeutic, rehabilitative, and residential home for transition age youth that was specifically designed for both female and male survivors of sexual exploitation, aged 18-21. Living arrows was designed to be the next step a upon graduation from a more rigorous strtp program like s.a.f.e. House santa barbara. The jlsb provided a grant and material support to living arrows during it's startup phase.
$6,988 spent3% of program spendingThe jlsb has been providing grants to community non-profits that align with the jlsb mission through our community assistance funds (caf) since our 1988-1989 fiscal year. This program not only provides financial support to local non-profits, but also serves to train jlsb members in how to vet and independently award grant applications. In the 2024-2025 fiscal year a total of $165,200 in grants were given to nineteen non-profit awardees.
$165,200 spentof which $165,200 as grants69% of program spendingTraining, education, conference attendance, meetings, and related activities for jlsb members in the 2024-2025 fiscal year.
$66,475 spent28% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $238,663.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $688k to $421k (−39%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
111% of JUNIOR LEAGUE OF SANTA BARBARA’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (62% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 5 funders, grant income fell $68k → $59k.
3 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 58% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of JUNIOR LEAGUE OF SANTA BARBARA’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
JUNIOR LEAGUE OF SANTA BARBARA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 79%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
60% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund JUNIOR LEAGUE OF SANTA BARBARA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 67% · 2018 63% · 2019 65% · 2020 40% · 2021 91% · 2022 50% · 2023 43% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
57% of JUNIOR LEAGUE OF SANTA BARBARA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 80% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
58% of JUNIOR LEAGUE OF SANTA BARBARA's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $168k that is directly attributable, 75% of it comes from funders outside California, across 3 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $237k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
JUNIOR LEAGUE OF SANTA BARBARA is better cushioned than half of the 7,175 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,175 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like JUNIOR LEAGUE OF SANTA BARBARA
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
65%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds JUNIOR LEAGUE OF SANTA BARBARA?
- JUNIOR LEAGUE OF SANTA BARBARA (California) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $405,533 to it, the largest being CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($170,675). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 58% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does JUNIOR LEAGUE OF SANTA BARBARA have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $405,533 in grants to JUNIOR LEAGUE OF SANTA BARBARA, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of JUNIOR LEAGUE OF SANTA BARBARA?
- CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $170,675 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like JUNIOR LEAGUE OF SANTA BARBARA find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 10 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing